Golden Whale, the decision intelligence and machine learning specialist for the iGaming industry, has appointed Marcel Wasserer as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO).

Wasserer is no stranger to the business. He has worked with Golden Whale as an AI consultant since January 2025, and now takes a permanent seat in the leadership team as the company expands its optimisation work with operators.

Who is Marcel Wasserer?

  • AI background: an AI adviser and reinforcement learning expert who has taken AI from research into production across several industries.
  • Venture building: co-founder in 2017 of enliteAI, a Vienna-based DeepTech venture studio building products in reinforcement learning and computer vision. Its spin-off Detekt was acquired by Cyclomedia in 2025.
  • iGaming experience: more than a decade in game development, including roles as Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead at Greentube.

Golden Whale’s tools plug into existing gaming systems such as CRM, personalisation, gamification and game environments, and turn them into systems that learn from player behaviour. The company says its solutions have delivered uplifts of 100% to 200%.

What they said

Eberhard Dürrschmid, CEO of Golden Whale, said:

“Marcel’s appointment is a signal of the increasing depth of the work we are doing here at Golden Whale and our commitment to theoretical excellence.

“Having worked closely with Marcel in different capacities, we have experienced first-hand the kind of valuable insights he brings. His deep expertise across both AI and game development makes him the perfect fit as we continue to strengthen our position as a leading provider of decision intelligence across the iGaming industry.”

Wasserer added:

“I’ve worked closely with the Golden Whale team over the last 21 months, and I’m delighted to take on the role of Chief Scientific Officer.

“The company continues to build momentum in the iGaming space, and I look forward to becoming a deeper part of that journey and helping shape its next stages.”

Golden Whale has been busy on the commercial side too, signing PantherBet in South Africa and supplying machine learning tools to Coolbet.